New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-01-26

morning hour. Mr.. Durham. addressior
himself to the long and short haul section Of
the bill, expressed his inability to understand
It's meaning and his disbelief anybody else
understood it
+ tho said roads were forced by this bill to
in which he lived would sustain the RreateCt
injury, for it would be more difficult for the
farmers OF that section to place their grain
with the grain products of Australia. ne would.
however, vote for the BILL
l1r. Guenther congratulated the people
Gnat at last congress was about to pass the
bill.
It's passage would inspire them with renewed
confidence in their representatives in congress.
Year after year the railroad magnates through
agents and lobbyists, had defeated ali Interstate
commerce nf isglsatlon' bnt the day OF JUDGMENT
would be The greatest triumph the public had
achieved for many years.
Mr.. Nelson favored the measure. and said
that by its passage one of the powerful
be completely sheathed. Mr. Weaver Gowa)
opposed the bill.
It's theory was to do as little for the people as
possible and to render those sections which re-
lated TO the rights OF the people as obscure and
unintelligible as human ingenuity could make
them. The people had been demanding the
Reagan bill and they had been fed on ashes.
Ihey had asked for an egg and were given
scorpion which would sting them to DEATH
bill was passed authorizing the construc-
ton of a bridge over the Mississippi river at
st. Louis.
SENATE.
Hoar called upthe conference report on the
electoral count bill. Mr.. Edmunis stated
his understanding to be that the conference
bill was, in substance, except as to two or
tho tI,
senate had passed over and over again Mr..
Wilson Qowa) said that he could not vote for
the report, because he believed that it pro-
posed to assume jurisdiction which, in his
Judgment, was prohibited by the constitu-
Gion. The conference report was agreed to
without further discussion and without di-
vision
The senate bill for the admission Of
WASHINGTON Territory as state was reported
favOraby with an amendment providing also
for the admission of Montana. The senate bill
amending the law regarding trade marks passed.
The interstate commerce bill was further dis
cussed.
The senate bill amending the law relating
to patents, trade marks and copyrights, which
passed the house to-day, provides:
Hereafter during the term of letters patent
for design. it shall be unlawful for anybody
other than the owner of thu letters patent, with
secured by such letters patent, any colorado
imitation thereof, to any article of manufacture
Tor the purpose OF sale, or to sell or expose for
sale any article of manufacture to which the
license of the owner has been applied, knowing
that the same has been SO applied.
Mr.. Miller OF Texas introduced bill to
amend the laws relating to national bank
associations which embodies the recon-
mendationg OF Controller Trenholm.
The bill proposes to amend the statutes reat-
tn t1o ,i,,Sp% 80
officials enlarges the powers Of the assistant
cashiers, provides for the punishment of persons
making false reports; requires bonds deposited
by national banks to secure circulation to be in
tercst- bearing bonds; fotbids national banks to
accept mortgages as security for loans; provides
Tor the exemption OF shareholders from individ-
1al iaplliIy Tor surplus FUNDS; empowers the
deputy controller to perform duties assigned to
MIN by the controller and provides means for
the resumption of business by failed banks after
a staJe24ent in full OF all liabilities.
SENATE.
Mr.. ColquitH presented petition from
the Women's Christian Temperance Union Of
the District OF Columbia
It charges the commissioners of the district
with disregarding the purity, safety and moral
interests and rights of the people, and asserta
that in direct violation Of the law. they have
for months. past been permitting and pro-
tectlng gambling halls. pool rooms and drinking
establishments, as well dens Of prostitution
and vice, and giving numerous particulars 1t
charges that house owned bv one of the COM
missioners is used az an office by the agent of
the Louisiana state lottery, and that Frank
Hume. the president of the liquor dealers assoc
citation, is bondsman of one the public commits
sioners. It therefore prays for thorough in
vestieation of the facts, and for the proper en-
forcement of the law and protection of homes
within the district.
Mr. ingalls,, chairman Of the district COM
mittee said:
The allegations presented in the petition had
long engaged the attention of the committee
There was no doubt there was very great viola
t1on. not only of law, but of moral and social
order In connection with these transactions.
Licenses had been granted in violation of statu-
the Country might understand that the district
committee had neither been oblivious nor neg
lectful OF these matters he felt it his duty to
call attention TO the fact that on Feb. d. 1894
he had introduced a bill regulating the sale OF
liquors in the district, and that on the 10Th of
the same month the bill had been reported by
the committee. and had subsequently passed the
senate That bill was now before the district
committee OF the house. IT the other branch of
congress had been as diligent as the senate one
great cause OF complaint would have been re-
moved.
The bill was read at length. It REQUIRES a
liquor license fee of $500. The petition
was referred to the committee on the District
OF Columbia
Alter the reading of the journal the
speaker stated that the lar order was
the vote upon the adoption OF the confer
cnce report on the Interstate commerce
bill, and the vote was taken on adoptin,
the report. 1t was agreed to-yeas 219
nays Al. The only nays were:
Amd's Mass s., EF Ere, Miller:
Bliss. Gilfiilan, Onfes ..
Boutelle, Grosvenor, ONeiil pal.
BH ,.gds Hayden ;yy 8NeiH (Moj,